Senior Backend Engineer – Scalable Cloud & Observability

International Business Machines Corporation; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM in Boston seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, test, deploy, and operate reliable backend systems in production. You will work in an Agile, collaborative environment to translate stakeholder needs into scalable software solutions and to improve service performance and resilience.

You will contribute to distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-based services with containers, and observability through metrics, logs, and tracing, while collaborating with product partners to

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building and operating backend services for production.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and data pipelines.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, containers and cloud deployments.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions to diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deliver backend services ready for production use.
• Build and operate reliable production systems with emphasis on performance and resilience.
• Contribute to distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and data pipelines.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and release practices; deploy cloud-based services.
• Enhance observability with metrics, logging, and tracing; participate in incidents.
• Diagnose issues, implement fixes, and collaborate with stakeholders to resolve them.
• Communicate decisions and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate with engineers and product partners in an Agile environment.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud-native

Observability

Agile teamwork

Job description

IBM in Boston seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, test, deploy, and operate reliable backend systems in production. You will work in an Agile, collaborative environment to translate stakeholder needs into scalable software solutions and to improve service performance and resilience.

You will contribute to distributed systems, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-based services with containers, and observability through metrics, logs, and tracing, while collaborating with product partners to